Jim’s Wisdom

If you got $110 back for every $100 you invested, would you keep investing that $100 over and over? How about $497 for $178,920. Would you invest? Entrepreneurs know ROI trumps dollar value every time, all day long.

I did not feel shame working at Target for a year while I got things off the ground. I had a commitment to honor and promises to keep. Success is all-in - I bet the house and won.

What's easy for you might be impossible for your customer. You are not your average customer, so stop assuming you are. This is how you become above-average in your market and grow superior revenues.

I heard some truth-telling that brought a new desire to create Dream Business growth that would make it possible to live my Dream Lifestyle.

You may not regret much, as a forward-looking Dream Business entrepreneur. But if you don't start the year right, you'll spend the next 11 months and some-odd days regretting it. Regret tastes like crap.

Stop waiting. Get out of your comfort zone. Regret tastes like crap, and no amount of ketchup will bury the gnarly sensation.

Until I got on the boat, I had never heard of minimalism. I thought success meant having more, more, more. Turns out less is more and it gets you the most in business and life!

Dan Kennedy was right: the little hinge has a lot of power to swing the big door. Forget analysis paralysis, going it alone, and having to understand every little thing or make it complicated. Easy and simple does it.

Business growth can be painful - it's not called "growing pains" for nothing. Experience is truly a great teacher, especially when you're learning from someone else's experience and they're helping you grow.